I can see how Simpol would help to solve some of the worlds pressing economic and environmental problems, but what effect would it have on the arms trade and the threat of wars?
Perhaps the best way to answer this is take the development of the European Union (EU) as an example. In past centuries Europe consisted of myriad nations who were at war with one another more or less continuously. Large quantities of arms were produced and consumed in Europe in those wars and millions died. But as the nations of Europe gradually learned to cooperate economically, and to some extent politically with one another, and have now formed themselves into the EU, the thought that they might ever go to war with one another has become virtually unthinkable. So although large quantities of weapons are still produced in the EU, they are now only for ‘consumption’ outside its borders. The market the EU itself represented for the use/consumption of such weapons was thus abolished because it became an essentially cooperative group of nations. Simpol extends this thinking to the global level since it provides a basis upon which ALL nations can together solve global problems through si
